Empire Families
Britons and Late Imperial India
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20007701 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Elizabeth Buettner (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2004 |
| Pages | 310 |
| Publication date | 2004-07-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Empire families (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Oxford University PressOxford (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1093/oso/9780199249077.001.0001 |
| OpenAlex | W4388360351 |
| Open Library | OL3327462M |
| ISBN | 9780199249077 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 67 |
What was life like for the British men, women, and children who lived in late imperial India while serving the Raj? Empire Families treats the Raj as a family affair and examines how, and why, many remained linked with India over several generations. Due to the fact that India was never meant for permanent European settlement, many families developed deep-rooted ties with India while never formally emigrating. Their lives were dominated by long periods of residence abroad punctuated by repeated travels between Britain and India: childhood overseas followed by separation from parents and education in Britain; adult returns to India through careers or marriage; furloughs, and ultimately retirement, in Britain. As a result, many Britons neither felt themselves to be rooted in India, nor felt completely at home when back in Britain. Their permanent impermanence led to the creation of distinct social realities and cultural identities. Empire Families sets out to recreate this society by looking at a series of families, their lives in India, and their travels back to Britain. Focusing for the first time on the experiences of parents and children alike, and including the Beveridge, Butler, Orwell, and Kipling families, Elizabeth Buettner uncovers the meanings of growing up in the Raj and an itinerant imperial lifestyle
Ancient history · Buddhism · Empire · Genealogy · Impermanence · Residence · Settlement (finance) · Sociology · Asian Studies and History · Australian History and Society · Caribbean history, culture, and politics · Demography · Gender Studies · History · 1765-1947 · 19th century · 20th century · British · british occupation · Colonies · Families · Family · Great britain · India
Entries
Introduction
The Art of Panicking Quietly
Re-Making Homes
The Troubled House
Not Home but Here”
Dhai , Ayah, and Anglo-Indian Mother
The Toynbee Affair at 100
Religious difference, colonial politics, and Grierson’s Linguistic Survey of India
Duties of a ‘good citizen’
This strange little floating world of ours’
European colonial soldiers in the nineteenth century
The unsettled Atlantic World of James Pinnock
West meets east
New Histories of British Imperial Communication and the ‘Networked World’ of the 19th and Early 20th Centuries
Empire, Cultures and Identities in Nineteenth‐ and Twentieth‐Century Britain
Home, Colonial and Foreign
Mass education and the British Empire
History and Historiography of the English East India Company
Indian child migration in the British Empire
The Self-consciousness of Post-imperial Nations
The Quest for a Home
Feeding Empire
Hong Kong is my Home’
‘We Went Bravely On … ’
The Truth about Captain Scott’
Missionary Manhood
Social Careers Across Imperial Spaces
This is Staffordshire not Alabama’
Rev. Simpson's ‘Improper Liberties’
Britishness’, Colonial Governance and Education
A Peaceful Place
Youthful, Likely Men, Able to Read, Write and Count’
Sailing through Suez from the South
‘A good site for health’
Ayah, Caregiver to Anglo-Indian Children, c. 1750–1947
Imperial Heirlooms
Maintaining the Bar
Imperial surveillance of marital distress
Intimate Relations and the Keonjhar Rebellion of 1891
Caste, space, and schooling in nineteenth century South India
Rescuing children, reforming the Empire
‘That unit of civilisation’ and ‘the talent peculiar to women’
Rotten Effeminate Stuff”
The Limits of Potential
More than One Mrs. Mir Anwaruddin
The Women of Kenya Speak
Voices and Silences of Memory
Suppressed Grief”
La famille britannique entre l'Inde et le Canada. Empire, classe sociale et voyage à la fin du XIX e siècle
Your Mother Has Never Forgotten You”
Familles en situation coloniale
Your Mother Has Never Forgotten You”
Military Migrants
The Private Lives of Empire
Britain's other civilising mission
Colony and Empire, Colonialism and Imperialism
Le sari à l'européenne. Vêtement et militantisme en Inde coloniale
Gender, religion, and 'heathen lands
Gender, Empire, Global Capitalism
Abortion in South Asia, 1860-1947
Historicizing Hybridity and the Politics of Location
The Postcolonial Family? West African Children, Private Fostering, and the British State
White with 'native' blood
Repatriates or Refugees? Narrating the Loss of Transnational Community
Supporting the Investigation ofKuruin New Guinea in the 1960s
Family metaphor in political and public debates in the Netherlands on migrants from the (former) Dutch East Indies 1949-66
| Unique citing works | 67 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,91 |
| Citation span | 2003 - 2026 (24) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 67 |